GCSE Excellence 2011

East Sussex celebrate GCSE results

Pupils and teachers in have been celebrating  Tideway School, Newhaven after GCSE results across the county improved again.  Uplands Community Technology College, Wadhurst  William Parker School, Hastings. Across all 27 secondary schools in the county 59% of students gained five or more A* to C grades including Councillor Nick Bennett, East Sussex County Council's English and maths – a 4% increase on the previous best Lead Member for Learning and School Effectiveness last year. applauded this year's success. He said: “Of course I would like to congratulate everyone whose hard work has The provisional GCSE results announced on Thursday 25 contributed to this success. Last year we saw some August have now been collated and show another year of significant improvements across the county and to do improvement across the county with 15 schools achieving better than that this year is especially pleasing.” their best ever results including English and maths. He added that once again the results were “a tribute to the The 15 schools who have had their best ever results for dedication and commitment of students and their five or more A* to C grades including English and teachers”. mathematics are: “Results like these speak volumes for the hard work of our  Beacon Community College, Crowborough students and their teachers. I am delighted to see so many  Claverham Community College, Battle successes but, as we say every year, we will not be  Filsham Valley, Hastings complacent and will continue to work hard to drive  Hailsham Community College standards still higher.”  Hillcrest School, Hastings  Peacehaven Community School The results also show that several schools achieved an  Priory School, Lewes improvement of more than 10% on last year.  , Eastbourne These are:  Rye College  Seaford Head Community College  Tideway School, Newhaven  St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill  Peacehaven Community School  The Bishops Bell CofE School, Eastbourne  William Parker Sports College, Hastings

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